Ceteareth-20
Ceteareth-20 appears in 19 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Ceteareth-20 appears in 19 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 19
- catalogued products
- #9,730
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 40%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5 of 19 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Daily Moisturizing Cream; Daily Moisturizing Lotion Sheer Hydration; DailyAdvance Ultra Hydrating Lotion to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Ceteareth-20 itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Skin-lotion supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
5 of 19 linked records have some flagged component
All 18 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Ceteareth-20: top-decile catalog footprint (#9,730 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,730
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 368 others that also appear in exactly 19 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Averaged label depth puts Ceteareth-20 in the upper half of the list (40% of list length, mean slot 13.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Ceteareth-20
Products Containing Ceteareth-20
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 19 indexed products containing Ceteareth-20:
High-volume peers for Ceteareth-20
Top-decile company for Ceteareth-20: 19 listings averaging 96.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Ceteareth-20 page
Start from Ceteareth-20's 19 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Ceteareth-20 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ceteareth-20 — common follow-ups
Does Ceteareth-20 carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Ceteareth-20. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ceteareth-20? ▼
Ceteareth-20 ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,730 of 247,206), appearing in 19 indexed products led by Skin-lotion. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ceteareth-20 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ceteareth-20 appears in 19 products (#9,730 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ceteareth-20). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.